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Madeira Data Solutions An island of calm for your business Professional Services Managed Services Professional Training – Academy SQL Server Error Log Management Written By: Guy Glantser 25/11/2011 Recently, while I was working at 888.com, I noticed the DBAs there manage SQL Server logs on their instances in a different way
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than the default behavior. I think that this log management is a good practice, so I wanted sql server error logs recycle to share it with you. But, first, let's start with some background… SQL Server maintains its own log, also called "SQL Server Error Log". This sql server error logs too big log contains messages describing informational and error events, similar to messages that you can find in Windows logs. In fact, many of the messages found in the SQL Server Error Log can also be found in the Windows Application Log. The
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SQL Server Error Log is a great place to find information about what's happening on your database server. SQL Server uses 7 log files to store these messages. One file serves as the current log file, and every new message is written to that file. The other 6 files are archived files, and they contain previous messages. Each time SQL Server is restarted, it recycles the files. What does it mean? First, it means that a new log file is created and becomes the
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new current log file. Second, the oldest log file ("Archive #6") is deleted. And third, all the other log files are pushed back one step. The previous current log file becomes "Archive #1", the previous "Archive #1" log file becomes "Archive #2", and so on. The log files are stored in the log folder of the instance. This folder is located by default in "Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLLog" (for a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance). You can configure the location of the log folder during installation, and you can also change it using the "-e" startup parameter of the SQL Server service. So far I described the default behavior of SQL Server. There are three problems with the default behavior of SQL Server. The first problem is that you have no control over the size of the log files. One file can be very large while another file can be very small. It would be easier to manage these files and work with them, if they had a more controlled and predictable size. The second problem is that you have no control over the recycling process. One file can contain two months of messages, while another file can contain only a few hours of messages. It’s difficult to find a specific message from a specific point in time. The third problem with the default behavior of SQL Server is that there are only 7 log files, and if recycling happens too often, then you might not have enoug
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Documentation APIs and reference Dev centers Retired content Samples We’re sorry. The content you requested sql server errorlog has been removed. You’ll be auto redirected in 1 second. Database Engine Instances (SQL Server) Manage the Database Engine Services Managing Services How-to Topics http://www.madeiradata.com/error-log-management/ (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Managing Services How-to Topics (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Configure SQL Server Error Logs Configure SQL Server Error Logs Configure SQL Server Error Logs Connect to Another Computer (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Set an Instance of SQL Server to Start Automatically (SQL Server Configuration Manager) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177285.aspx Prevent Automatic Startup of an Instance of SQL Server (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Change the Service Startup Account for SQL Server (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Configure Server Startup Options (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Change the Password of the Accounts Used by SQL Server (SQL Server Configuration Manager) Configure SQL Server Error Logs TOC Collapse the table of content Expand the table of content This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. Configure SQL Server Error Logs SQL Server 2016 Other Versions SQL Server 2014 SQL Server 2012  Applies To: SQL Server 2016This topic describes how to view or modify the way SQL Server error logs are recycled.To open the Configure SQL Server Error Logs dialog boxIn Object Explorer, expand the instance of SQL Server, expand Management, right-click SQL Server Logs, and then click Configure.
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| 2 | 3 | More > Monitoring ProblemOne of the issues I have is that the SQL Server Error Log is quite large and it is not always easy to view the contents with the Log File Viewer. In a previous tip "Simple way to find errors in SQL Server error log" you discussed a method of searching the error log using VBScript. Are there any other easy ways to search and find errors in the error log files? SolutionSQL Server 2005 offers an undocumented system stored procedure sp_readerrorlog. This SP allows you to read the contents of the SQL Server error log files directly from a query window and also allows you to search for certain keywords when reading the error file. This is not new to SQL Server 2005, but this tip discusses how this works for SQL Server 2005. This is a sample of the stored procedure for SQL Server 2005. You will see that when this gets called it calls an extended stored procedure xp_readerrorlog. CREATE PROC [sys].[sp_readerrorlog](
@p1 INT = 0,
@p2 INT = NULL,
@p3 VARCHAR(255) = NULL,
@p4 VARCHAR(255) = NULL)
AS
BEGIN
IF (NOT IS_SRVROLEMEMBER(N'securityadmin') = 1<